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Obeka Speed Runs the Initiative (Updated) @MTGSpecs YouTube
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $626.29
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Commander

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Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

Menace Whenever Obeka, Splitter of Seconds deals combat damage to a player, you get that many additional upkeep steps after this phase.

Creature
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds (otj) 222
1

Artifact

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Mirage Mirror

{2}: Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Artifact
Mirage Mirror (cmm) 962
1

Draw and Velocity

Quantity: 6Price: $70.74
Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Target player draws three cards.

Sorcery
Ancestral Vision (tsr) 52
1
Bloodgift Demon

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Bloodgift Demon (scd) 69
1
Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 530
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
1
Robe of the Archmagi

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw that many cards. Equip {4} Equip Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard {1}

Artifact
Robe of the Archmagi (clb) 91
1

Dungeon delve

Quantity: 14Price: $7.40
Aarakocra Sneak

Flying When Aarakocra Sneak enters the battlefield, you take the initiative.

Creature
Aarakocra Sneak (clb) 54
1
Bloodboil Sorcerer

When Bloodboil Sorcerer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Crown of Madness — {1}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Bloodboil Sorcerer (clb) 164
1
Caves of Chaos Adventurer

Trample When Caves of Chaos Adventurer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Whenever Caves of Chaos Adventurer attacks, exile the top card of your library. If you've completed a dungeon, you may play that card this turn without paying its mana cost. Otherwise, you may play that card this turn.

Creature
Caves of Chaos Adventurer (clb) 167
1
Dungeoneer's Pack

Dungeoneer's Pack enters the battlefield tapped. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Dungeoneer's Pack: You take the initiative, gain 3 life, draw a card, and create a Treasure token. Activate only as a sorcery. (A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Dungeoneer's Pack (clb) 312
1
Feywild Caretaker

When Feywild Caretaker enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Feywild Caretaker (clb) 69
1
From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. You take the initiative. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 671
1
Imoen, Mystic Trickster

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, draw a card. Draw another card if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Imoen, Mystic Trickster (clb) 77
1
Loot Dispute

When Loot Dispute enters the battlefield, you take the initiative and create a Treasure token. Whenever you attack the player who has the initiative, create a Treasure token. Loud Ruckus — Whenever you complete a dungeon, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Loot Dispute (clb) 677
1
Ravenloft Adventurer

When Ravenloft Adventurer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it. Whenever Ravenloft Adventurer attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Creature
Ravenloft Adventurer (clb) 142
1
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin

Deathtouch When Rilsa Rael, Kingpin enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. If you've completed a dungeon, that creature also gets +5/+0 and gains first strike and menace until end of turn.

Creature
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin (clb) 293
1
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 143
1
Stirring Bard

Defender When Stirring Bard enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Mantle of Inspiration — {T}: Target creature gains menace and haste until end of turn.

Creature
Stirring Bard (clb) 195
1
Tomb of Horrors Adventurer

When Tomb of Horrors Adventurer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it. If you've completed a dungeon, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Tomb of Horrors Adventurer (clb) 100
1
Trailblazer's Torch

When Trailblazer's Torch enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked, it deals 2 damage to each creature blocking it. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Trailblazer's Torch (clb) 340
1

Enchantment

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Aether Tunnel

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.

Enchantment
Aether Tunnel (m19) 43
1
As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on As Foretold. Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on As Foretold.

Enchantment
As Foretold (2x2) 38
1
Dungeon Delver

Commander creatures you own have "Room abilities of dungeons you own trigger an additional time."

Enchantment
Dungeon Delver (clb) 67
1
Extravagant Replication

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of another target nonland permanent you control.

Enchantment
Extravagant Replication (ncc) 25
1
Infernal Genesis

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills a card. Then they create X 1/1 black Minion creature tokens, where X is the milled card's mana value.

Enchantment
Infernal Genesis (pcy) 68
1

Evasion and Protection

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Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Champion's Helm (pip) 756
1
Demonic Gifts

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."

Instant
Demonic Gifts (j22) 398
1
Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
1
Ring of Evos Isle

{2}: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Evos Isle (m13) 211
1
Ring of Xathrid

{2}: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Xathrid (m13) 215
1
Rush of Vitality

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage dealt by that creature also causes its controller to gain that much life, and it can't be destroyed by damage or effects that say "destroy.")

Instant
Rush of Vitality (kld) 99
1
Sword Coast Sailor

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, this creature can't be blocked this turn."

Enchantment
Sword Coast Sailor (clb) 98
1
Unlikely Aid

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Unlikely Aid (iko) 103
1
Winged Boots

Equipped creature has flying and ward {4}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Winged Boots (afc) 20
1

Instant

Quantity: 1Price: $54.99
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
1

Land

Quantity: 36Price: $328.62
Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252
1
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
1
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
1
City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 321
1
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh3) 305
4
Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
1
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
1
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 276
6
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
1
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
1
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
1
Riverglide Pathway

Land
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264
1
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
1
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
1
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (rvr) 288
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 306
6
Training Center

Training Center enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291
1
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) Xander's Lounge enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260
1

Power increase

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Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Hatred (exo) 64
1
Ring of Valkas

Equipped creature has haste. (It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's red. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Valkas (cmr) 469
1

Ramp and mana

Quantity: 8Price: $12.42
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
1
Moonsilver Key

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Moonsilver Key: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Moonsilver Key (mid) 255
1
Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate Nightscape Familiar.

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
1
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on Replicating Ring. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (moc) 372
1
Sarevok's Tome

When Sarevok's Tome enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. {T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead. {3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Artifact
Sarevok's Tome (clb) 685
1
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Talisman of Creativity deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (cmm) 979
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242
1
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
1

Redundancy

Quantity: 2Price: $1.29
Paradox Haze

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

Enchantment
Paradox Haze (plst) TSP-71
1
Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying At the beginning of your postcombat main phase, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Creature
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
1

Removal

Quantity: 4Price: $13.46
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (otc) 89
1
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (mkc) 149
1
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (lcc) 198
1
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mkc) 142
1

Room 5: Power package

Quantity: 10Price: $58.56
Auton Soldier

You may have Auton Soldier enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may put a token that's a copy of this creature onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Creature Artifact
Auton Soldier (who) 353
1
Blast-Furnace Hellkite

Artifact offering (You may cast this spell as though it had flash by sacrificing an artifact and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed artifact. Mana cost includes color.) Flying, double strike Creatures attacking your opponents have double strike.

Creature
Blast-Furnace Hellkite (brc) 12
1
Boltwing Marauder

Flying Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Boltwing Marauder (dtk) 214
1
Chaos Terminator Lord

Lord of Chaos — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Chaos Terminator Lord (40k) 74
1
Forgestoker Dragon

Flying {1}{R}: Forgestoker Dragon deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature can't block this combat. Activate only if Forgestoker Dragon is attacking.

Creature
Forgestoker Dragon (bng) 98
1
Geode Rager

First strike Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, goad each creature target player controls. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Geode Rager (clb) 794
1
Karlach, Fury of Avernus

Whenever you attack, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap all attacking creatures. They gain first strike until end of turn. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Karlach, Fury of Avernus (clb) 186
1
Moraug, Fury of Akoum

Each creature you control gets +1/+0 for each time it has attacked this turn. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if it's your main phase, there's an additional combat phase after this phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures you control.

Creature
Moraug, Fury of Akoum (znr) 150
1
Sauron, the Dark Lord

Ward—Sacrifice a legendary artifact or legendary creature. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, amass Orcs 1. Whenever an Army you control deals combat damage to a player, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw four cards.

Creature
Sauron, the Dark Lord (ltr) 224
1
Scourge of the Throne

Flying Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever Scourge of the Throne attacks for the first time each turn, if it's attacking the player with the most life or tied for most life, untap all attacking creatures. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Creature
Scourge of the Throne (mkc) 160
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 1Price: $1.99
Eternal Dominion

Search target opponent's library for an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles. Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Sorcery
Eternal Dominion (plst) SOK-36
1

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